o Number of prime-time Eagles regular-season games or number of regular-season starting Eagles quarterbacks?

o LeSean McCoy total touchdowns or Spencer Hawes scoring average?

o Nick Foles regular-season starts or Kyle Kendrick wins?

o Sixers' trips to the draft lottery or postseason Union goals?

And finally, in the spirit of the Super Bowl:

o Eagles next Super Bowl trip -- over-under eight years from now?

Of all of the Phillies' muffled offseason moves -- and there were too many -- one carried an understated statistical appeal.

That Yuniesky Betancourt -- hmmmm ... interesting.

Betancourt, 30, had 16 homers in 2010, 13 in 2011 and seven in 57 games last season. And for a team that so often has struggled to score, and with the infield so old that it will need regular nap time, that has to make him more valuable as a backup infielder -- and run-producer -- than either Freddy Galvis or Michael Martinez.

o Michael Bourn, who once was projected as the hottest free agent in baseball, is still jobless. Good idea, committing to Scott Boras.

Paintball sounds like a good idea.

By his 3,000th pre-Super Bowl press conference Thursday, San Francisco 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh was down to praising his scout teams, revealing that the extra weeks of practice time would benefit his young players in future years. Makes sense.

But even with full respect for the spoils-to-winners equation, why should two teams be entitled to two extra weeks of essential training camp to develop players not to win this Super Bowl, but to win the next one? And if that is happening, how long until the other 30 teams start scheduling their young players for formal end-of-January work too?

o Last weekend, the AFC ran up 35 Pro Bowl points, and lost to the NFC by 25. Since it's not a professional-grade football event, the theory goes, the NFL should distance itself from it in a brand-protection initiative. Roger Goodell even has forwarded that threat.

The only way to preserve the tradition -- which does attract 10 million-plus gamblers, I mean TV viewers -- is to embrace its oddity. Why not make the defensive All-Stars play both ways for the first half, the offensive players do so after intermission?

At last that way, all sides would be embracing the whimsical nature of the event, all while increasing the curiosity factor. The Pro Bowl, yes, does scream pro-athlete arrogance. But it's worth trying to save.

Andrew Bynum is about to return to basketball activities -- otherwise known as his job. But when he enters the Sixers lineup for the first time, and he will, that doesn't necessarily ensure immediate success.

The other day, associate head coach Michael Curry was asked if the Sixers were ready for a Bynum return?

"We're excited," he said. But ready?

"We're excited," he said. Got it.

Pa Kettle -- I don't get it. And the odds aren't looking very good for Ma, either.